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ACHROMATIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no hue
Example:
neutral colors like black or white
Synonyms:
achromatic; neutral
Classified under:
Similar:
iron-gray; iron-grey (of the grey color of iron)
lily-white (of a pure white color)
milk-white (of a white the color of fresh milk)
olive-gray; olive-grey (of grey tinged with olive)
dark-gray; dark-grey; oxford-gray; oxford-grey (of a dark shade of grey)
pearl gray; pearl grey (of a grey with a pearly tinge)
pearly; pearly-white (of a white the color of pearls)
pinkish-white (of white tinged with pink)
purple-black; purplish-black (of black tinged with purple)
purple-white; purplish-white (of white tinged with purple)
red-gray; red-grey; reddish-gray; reddish-grey (of grey tinged with red)
sable (of a dark somewhat brownish black)
silver-gray; silver-grey; silvery-gray; silvery-grey (of grey resembling silver)
silver-white; silvery-white (of a white that resembles silver)
slate-black (of a black tinged with slate-grey)
slate-gray; slate-grey; slatey; slaty; slaty-gray; slaty-grey; stone-gray; stone-grey (of the color of slate or granite)
snow-white; snowy (of the white color of snow)
soot-black; sooty-black (of the black color of soot)
violet-black (of black tinged with violet)
white-flowered ((of plants) having white flowers)
off-white; whitish (of something having a color tending toward white)
yellow-gray; yellow-grey; yellowish-gray; yellowish-grey (of grey tinged with yellow)
yellow-white; yellowish-white (of a white tinged with yellow)
argent; silver; silverish; silvery (of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver)
ash-gray; ash-grey; ashy (of a light grey)
blackish (of something that is somewhat black)
black-gray; black-grey; blackish-gray; blackish-grey (of dark grey)
blue-white; bluish-white; cool-white (of white tinged with blue)
blue-gray; blue-grey; bluish-gray; bluish-grey (of grey tinged with blue)
blue-black; bluish black (of black tinged with blue)
brown-black; brownish-black (of black tinged with brown)
brown-gray; brown-grey; brownish-gray; brownish-grey (of grey tinged with brown)
canescent (of greyish white)
chalky (of something having the color of chalk)
charcoal; charcoal-gray; charcoal-grey (of a very dark grey)
coal-black; jet; jet-black; pitchy; sooty (of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal)
cottony-white (of something as white as cotton)
dull-white (of a dull shade of white)
ebon; ebony (of a very dark black)
gray; grayish; grey; greyish (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)
gray-black; grayish-black; grey-black; greyish-black (of black tinged with grey)
gray-white; grayish-white; grey-white; greyish-white (of white tinged with grey)
greenish-gray; greenish-grey (of grey tinged with green)
green-white; greenish-white (of white flowers tinged with green)
hueless (of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue)
ink-black; inky; inky-black (of the color of black ink)
Also:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Attribute:
chromaticity; hue (the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength)
Antonym:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
achromatize (remove color from)
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